A popular insider is arguing that Sony won't allow PC ports on future Xbox consoles. Many gamers disagree since any Windows-based system should support Steam. Microsoft may soon release an Xbox handheld that could act as a test case for booting PlayStation's cross-platform games.
What Sony could do is patch restrictive DRM software into all their games that checks the hardware info and fails to boot if you’re on “an xbox”.
They’d definitely do that, they’ve already used what amounted to a Rootkit for DRM in the mid-2000s, so your idea wouldn’t even be the worst they’ve done lolol
Problem with that is, if the xbox is a PC with sideloading capabilities (instead of being a much harder thing to engineer: a true “console experience” that just adds Steam), then all Sony’s current games can be pirated on the thing. Future titles would have whatever lock and also probably Denuvo, for sure, or Sony could just stop putting their games on PC. Sony probably wasn’t seeing a future where anyone but “sweaty PC nerds” would be playing Steam games in their living room with controllers, and Microsoft has the perfect opportunity to say “alright, whatever. We lost the exclusives arms race to Nintendo and Sony so let’s just do what we do best and maintain the biggest gaming platform in the history of the medium but make it as easy for Joe Rando to use as an Xbox 360 was”.
Microsoft has such an opportunity to learn the right lessons from the Steam Deck - make good convenient hardware with a lot of compatibility, slap a user-friendly interface on it, and do nothing to stop tinkering and customizing other than making it easy to restore back to stock.
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They’d definitely do that, they’ve already used what amounted to a Rootkit for DRM in the mid-2000s, so your idea wouldn’t even be the worst they’ve done lolol
Problem with that is, if the xbox is a PC with sideloading capabilities (instead of being a much harder thing to engineer: a true “console experience” that just adds Steam), then all Sony’s current games can be pirated on the thing. Future titles would have whatever lock and also probably Denuvo, for sure, or Sony could just stop putting their games on PC. Sony probably wasn’t seeing a future where anyone but “sweaty PC nerds” would be playing Steam games in their living room with controllers, and Microsoft has the perfect opportunity to say “alright, whatever. We lost the exclusives arms race to Nintendo and Sony so let’s just do what we do best and maintain the biggest gaming platform in the history of the medium but make it as easy for Joe Rando to use as an Xbox 360 was”.
Microsoft has such an opportunity to learn the right lessons from the Steam Deck - make good convenient hardware with a lot of compatibility, slap a user-friendly interface on it, and do nothing to stop tinkering and customizing other than making it easy to restore back to stock.